With Detroit Mayor Dave Bing preparing to explain the city's fiscal crisis tonight in a rare televised address, Council President Pro Tem Gary Brown says the situation is even worse than anyone has let on.

Bing is expected to discuss a confidential Ernst & Young report obtained by the Detroit Free Press that suggests Detroit could run out of cash by April without steep cuts to staff and public services.

That's a grim prognosis, but according to Brown, the city actually could be unable to make payroll "as early as December."

"I know the report says April, but there are certain risk assumptions that when you take those into consideration, worst case scenario you could run out (of cash) in December," Brown said this morning on WJR-AM 760.

In his speech tonight, Bing is expected to propose privatizing the city's public bus system and lighting departments, both of which have have been failing residents but reportedly cost them $100 million a year in subsidies.

Brown supports that long-term plan, but he is hoping the mayor will couple it with a short-term strategy to lay off up to 2,300 city workers if unions fail to agree to long-discussed concessions.

If Bing doesn't, City Council will.

"If the mayor tonight comes out with a plan that does not address the short-term and long-term issues, the Council is going to come out with a plan. We're going to put it in a resolution, send it to the governor and say 'We're willing to make these cuts.'"

Strange.. Most of my magazines this year had HUGE 6 page advertisement sections on the Return of the Motor City...it was Reborn from the ashes...probably took a lot of taxpayer money to take out all them pages. Thank You America...

Detroit the one time model of American Industrial Genius has become the Poster Boy for the democratic parties entitlement mentality. Have these policies payed off? No! since 1961 when the first Democratic Mayor for the next 49 years of Democratic Mayors began to implement entitlement Democratic Entitlement Programs within Detroit.

This Grand Progressive experiment has clearly failed, yet the same policies are continually forced upon the American people. The Models Cities Program which stole $ millions of taxpayers dollars was the first great step in creating the Central Urban Planning Experiment resulting in the above mentioned carnage that we see today. The radical leftist economic policies fail this is crystal clear . Detroit has been on the receiving end of every government handout since 1961.

Hold on there. Michigan has beautiful and conservative regions outside the festering hellholes they call cities.

Like most rust belt states, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, You have two states in one: on one hand an archipelago of concentrations of filthy parasite urban dwellers and on the other an expanse of solid middle America supporting them.

The State of MI wont bail Detroit out, it will shut it down so to speak and bust the unions out of business.

In Ohio the union thugs were so busy partying and gloating that they missed Kasich's comments on the defeat of issue 2, when he said the state has no money-- and there is no bailout in sight for the cities. The cities in Ohio are all basically broke already themselves, and are now on their own dealing with ravenous union wolves.

I’ve seen some pictures of Detroit recently, and it’s shocking that a major American city looks like a war zone. Sometimes people here attach the pictures of Detroit, Camden, New Jersey, Gary, Indiana, and some other hell holes.

But how can American cities look like war zones, when we haven’t been invaded by a foreign army? You really wonder, how it is that our own residents tear these places apart????

Hey, Dumbass, I grew up in the city of Detroit in the 50’s to the 70’s.
You obviously know nothing about my city.
We were the richest city in the world in the 50’s , due to our manufacturing prowess.
I don’t live there now, due to their obvious Socialist inklings, but I would move back if the political situation would change.
So, where do you live, and have you ever lived in the city of Detroit?

They could if they'd contract non-union labor . . . but that's forbidden in Michigan. Why not hire illegal aliens? They're a protected species. I'd like to see SEIU and the building trade unions of AFL-CIO go at it.

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posted on 11/17/2011 9:40:20 PM PST
by MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)

well, I actually hope Detroit does what it has to do and becomes a vital city again....

lay off city workers...demand union concessions....crack down big time on crime, improve the cleanliness of the city...tear down the rundown buildings or houses....plant huge gardens and parkways if nothing else....

The long-term commitments from decades of socialism make the political situation irrelevant (like in NJ); the liabilities for people who retired 30 years ago will make the area undesirable & expensive for a long time to come.

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